Snowy penguin

Evening in Antarctica

Red-bearded Bee-eater

Drinking Mate

Tiger cubs

Girl from India

Caiman

Orangutan

White-out Gentoos

Biology Students

Kings on the beach

Wild Indian Elephant

Join us to COSTA RICA: Wild & Colourful Photo Expedition

'All Creatures Great & Small'

Tour leader: Des Ong, UK

14 - 27 April, 2019

2 spaces available only!

The focus of our trip is to photograph not only the many diverse species of birdlife in this country, but also other interesting mammals, invertebrates and plantsthat are often overlooked on more conventional Costa Rican tours. Working withan experienced naturalist and biologist, and accompanied by myself, a full-timewildlife photographer, we will be covering a range of habitats and topography.

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Antarctica - the coldest, windiest and driest continent on Earth. And the most unspoiled. One big block of ice. This was where we were heading on a photo expedition with Wildphoto in November 2017. Fifty photographers from several countries; Norway, Sweden, UK, France, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, USA, Australia, China, India and Malaysia. A multicultural journey to the end of the World on our expedition wessel M/S Polar Pioneer. We were all sharing the same interest - nature photography and exploring remote places on Earth.

I was travelling with my good friend and fellow nature photographer Ragnvald and our mutual Danish friend Hans Christian, who had joined us twice to Svalbard, was also on board. We have been planning the trip for more than two years. Would we have success? Would we encounter penguins, seals, whales and huge table-shaped icebergs? Would we observe signs of the ice melting due to climate change, which is so obvious in the Arctic? Crossing the Drake could be a challenge. It was an excited gang that left Puerto Williams in southern Chile on the late afternoon of November 9th heading out the Beagle Channel and into the Drake Passage, the roughest waters there are...

73 degrees North, 31 degrees East, home to more than 40 000 breeding pair of noicy birds. One of the largest and most easily accessable bird cliffs in the World.

Arctic puffins, kittiwakes, common shags, common guillemots, thick-billed murre, razorbills, black guillemots, glaucous gulls, European herring gulls, great black-backed gulls, king eiders and common eiders. A paradise for ornithologiests and nature photographers. This is Hornøya, the easternmost island in Norway, loacated in the Barents Sea, one kilometer off Vardø.

Protected as a nature reserve since 1983. The lighthouse on the top of the island is a famous landmark for sea farers sailing stormy waters. In March 2017 I visited this magificent island together with two fellow nature photographers.

Ever since I was a teenager, I have been interested in astronomy and taking photos of the night sky. On this site I want to show you some of my astrophoto highlights. Some images are taken from my private back-yard observatory located close to the North Sea at the island of Hidra in south-western Norway (which must bne the poorest place in the world for an astronomical observatory observatory), others through internet based online telescopes at ITelescope.net.

The increasing light pollution and very few clear nights, makes it very difficult to take high quality astrophotos from my back-yard observatory. Therefore, very good alternative for me is the online based rentable telescopes at ITelescope.net. Although you loose the feeling of beeing an astronomer looking through the telescope, freezing at night and enjoying the spendor of the starry sky above you, I still find it very pleaseing to be able to look at the universe through very powerful CCD cameras and reveal details that I would never be able to see from home. My old Meade LX200 SC-reflector is, however, still used for visual observations and as a tracking device for piggy-back mounted SR cameras.